How does Gulliver escape from Lilliput and return to England?

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Illustration of Lemuel Gulliver lying on the ground, tied down by tiny Lilliputians, with crowds and small buildings in the background, from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. — Gulliver’s Travels Lemuel Gulliver in Lilliput, illustration from an edition of Jonathan Swift's *Gulliver's Travels*.

In Gulliver’s Travels, Lemuel Gulliver initially falls out of favor with the Lilliputian emperor after refusing to help conquer the neighboring empire of Blefuscu and extinguishing a fire in the royal palace by urinating on it. Facing a sentence of blinding and starvation for treason, Gulliver flees to the island of Blefuscu. There, he discovers a normal-sized boat, which allows him to depart the island and successfully return to England.12